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New Accessibility Feature Enhances Open Exhibits Experience

Posted on January 6, 2015 by Stacy Hasselbacher

Video tour of enhanced Solar System Exhibit Enhanced Solar System Exhibit Ideum (the lead organization of Open Exhibits) has made significant progress in multitouch accessibility in the process of developing three prototypes for the Creating Museum Media for Everyone (CMME) … Continue reading →

Posted in Accessibility, Development, Exhibit Design, Gestures, Multi-touch, OE SDK, UI Design, Usability, Visitor Experience Tagged accessibility, exhibit, exhibit design, interactive exhibits, Multitouch, open exhibits, UI, user interfaces, UX

CMME: Audio Toolkit

Posted on December 31, 2014 by Emily O'Hara

Audio is a major feature of the final exhibit for the Museum of Science’s portion of the Creating Museum Media for Everyone (CMME) project. The audio components help guide visitors through their interaction with the exhibit. We found that many … Continue reading →

Posted in Accessibility, Exhibit Design, UI Design, Visitor Experience Tagged design, exhibit, exhibit design, graphs, Human computer interaction, interactive exhibits, Museum Exhibit Design, universal design

CMME: Graph Paths Not Taken

Posted on December 31, 2014 by Emily O'Hara

Written by Emily O’Hara and Stephanie Iacovelli For the Museum of Science’s portion of the Creating Museum Media for Everyone project, we wanted to create an accessible interactive that featured graphed data. The final exhibit component contains five scatter plot … Continue reading →

CMME: Toolkit Source Code for Interactive

Posted on November 18, 2014 by Emily O'Hara

Written by Ben Jones This computer-based interactive is the result of our Creating Museum Media for Everyone (CMME) work at the Museum of Science. In this post, we are including the source code so that individuals or institutions can repurpose … Continue reading →

Posted in Accessibility, Development, Exhibit Design, Open Source, Software, UI Design, Usability, Visitor Experience Tagged design, exhibit, interactive exhibits, Museum Exhibit Design, museum technology, Museums, open exhibits, sdk, software development kit

CMME: Tactile Paths not Taken

Posted on October 15, 2014 by Emily O'Hara

Written by Malorie Landgreen and Ben Jones The Creating Museum Media for Everyone (CMME) team at the Museum of Science, Boston (MOS) explored many avenues to address our goal of making accessible digital interactive as useful as possible. While reading … Continue reading →

Posted in Accessibility, Development, Exhibit Design, UI Design, Usability, Visitor Experience Tagged design, exhibit, exhibit design, interactive exhibits, museum, Museum Exhibit Design, museum technology, tactile, universal design, user interfaces

CMME Final Exhibit Component

Posted on September 30, 2014 by Emily O'Hara

For the Creating Museum Media for Everyone (CMME) project, the team from the Museum of Science, Boston, aimed to develop a proof-of-concept exhibit component that used multisensory options to display data and whose components could be adapted into a basic … Continue reading →

A Web for Everyone: Designing Accessible User Experiences

Posted on April 11, 2014 by Nora Galler

Check out UX Magazine’s excerpt of Sarah Horton and Whitney Quesenbery’s book on accessibility, A Web for Everyone: Designing Accessible User Experiences. Through the use of case studies on individuals with different accessibility challenges, the authors present clear overviews of how … Continue reading →

Posted in Accessibility, Community, Exhibit Design, Research, UI Design, Usability, Visitor Experience Tagged UI, universal design, user experience, user interface, UX, web design

We’re Gearing up for the AAM Museum Expo

Posted on April 8, 2014 by Nora Galler

Open Exhibits and Ideum are getting ready to host a booth (#2809) in the Technology Innovation Zone at next month’s AAM Museum Expo in Seattle. We hope those of you attending will stop by our booth to see the … Continue reading →

Posted in Community, Conference, Development, Education, Exhibit Design, Multi-touch, OE SDK, Open Source, Software, UI Design, Visitor Experience Tagged 4k UHD, 4K ultra HD, 4K ultra high definition, AAM, American Alliance of Museums, ideum, multitouch coffee table, multitouch drafting table, multitouch hardware, open exhibits, ultra high definition

Open Exhibits Seattle Bound for AAM 2014

Posted on February 4, 2014 by Nora Galler

Open Exhibits will be at the AAM Expo in their new Technology Innovation Zone (booth 2809) featuring OE software on Ideum multitouch tables. The Expo is not until May, but we’re excited to be participating again this year and to show … Continue reading →

Posted in Accessibility, Community, Conference, Exhibit Design, Hardware, Multi-touch, OE SDK, Open Source, Software, UI Design, Usability, Visitor Experience Tagged AAM, AAM Expo, HCI, HCI+ISE, Human computer interaction, ideum, interactive exhibits, Multitouch, multitouch exhibits, multiuser, museum conference, Museum Exhibit Design, museum technology, Museums, open exhibits, software development kit

Open Exhibits 3.1 Update

Posted on January 8, 2014 by Ken Willes

The Open Exhibits Team has just released an update to the SDK: 3.1.0. This update continues the development effort of supporting Away3D, adding a new 3D layout infrastructure, and helper transformation classes that facilitate more natural object transformations relative to … Continue reading →

Posted in Accessibility, Development, Exhibit Design, Gestures, Multi-touch, OE SDK, Open Source, Software, UI Design

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